Draft:Lam Ngong Kon
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Lam Ngong Kon was born to a Chinese Hakka family on 18/3/1931 in Ipoh, Malaysia before the Second World War. He survived the Japanese occupation which interrupted his education at the prestigious Methodist Boys’ School. He left Malaysia at the age of 18 years to seek a new beginning in Singapore by joining the police force. Whilst he was very good with the English language (having been drilled in Queen’s English) , he was also multilingual in the local Malay as well as several Chinese dialects. Ngong Kon was intelligent as well as good with people. His early disciplined years and training in the police force equipped him to be an instructor in the police academy. He was a marksmen and was also good at unarmed combat. This put him in good stead to be selected to join the special police security branch in Pearl Hill as a security officer looking after the newly elected first prime minister and his family, and later the president and various cabinet ministers. Upon his retirement at 40 years of age, he entered civilian life first becoming the Woh Hup Shopping Centre Administrator in charge of security, and later responsible for administration and security of Fujitec Elevators manufacturing plant. He joined the Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) as their Deputy commandant responsible for security of various campuses.
Lam Ngong Kon is the father of international relations political scientist and analyst Lam Peng Er who has authored several important books. Lam Ngong Kon was instrumental in assisting with background information and research as well as setting up interviews for the publication of an epic book in Singapore regarding the first group of cabinet ministers in Singapore when Singapote gained independence from British Rule.
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[edit]Lam Peng Er & Kevin YL Tan(1999), Lee’s Lieutenants, Singapore’s Old Guard, Allen & Unwin
Singapore Straits Times Newspaper (18 October 2016) Death Notice “Lam Ngong Kon Psalm 23”
Singapore Straits Times Newspaper, Tham Yuen-C and Fatimah Mujibah, (9 October 2024) “Lee Wei Ling, Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter, dies at 69”
Singapore Straits Times Newspaper, Shea John Driscoll (20 AUG, 2014), “How Singapore's presidents have been honoured”